Messages in this thread | | | From | René Rebe <> | Subject | Re: kbuild / KERNELRELEASE not rebuild correctly anymore | Date | Sun, 15 Jan 2006 11:41:30 +0100 |
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Hi,
On Sunday 15 January 2006 11:05, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 10:51:14AM +0100, Ren? Rebe wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > with at least 2.6.15-mm{2,3,4} untaring the kernel and running make > > menuconfig (or most other favourite config tools) do not display a > > version anymore since .kernelrelease it not build as dependecy. > > > > I only noticed this because my build scripts grab the version before the > > build for later file names on installations and leave this string empty > > after configuration of latest linux kernels. > > It is correct that "make kernelrelease" does not display correct info > until you have done a proper build of the kernel or at least the prepare > step. > > The issue here is that we shall avoid sideeffects when running "make > kernelrelease" so it does not trigger all sorts of commands when running > as root for instance. > > So the real fix is to error out when .kernelrelease does not exists. > See attached patch.
You expect us to run make prepare before make menuconfig or simillar? That sounds a bit odd ...
Yours,
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